Keeping the Balance

With summer comes party's, BBQ's and temptations! I have had 2 weekends now of party's and with both came unhealthy choices - but I tried to make the healthiest choice of the unhealthy. Lite beer, vodka and soda ... more salad and less chips... and during the week, balance will come. Back to eating right and exercising. As one of my Create Balance supporters pointed out to me last week - you still have to enjoy life if this is a long term change, you can't expect that you will restrain from goodies all the time.


At Create Balance we have introduced a new class. It is a "learn to run a 5k and matwork combo" class. I was supposed to attend on Saturday morning, but Isabel was not feeling well, so I chose to miss the class and snuggle with my girl. I've managed to recruit Megan Orser, (also a fellow blogger) to run with me Tuesday before my Reformer class at Create Balance so I will still get my run in. I'm also booked into 3 other classes this week, so I am getting my workouts!


I am also going to try to cut out bread this week. Years ago I did the Atkins diet. The first 2 weeks I ate only proteins and veggies (very hard and went thru crazy withdrawal!). Then after that I added fruit back to my diet, but stayed heavier on the protein than anything else. My body really responded to this diet. I was down to a size 6 and not even exercising. Not sure how that worked, but it does not seem to healthy. I was eating bacon, full fat beef... no fish. So I am going to try a modification and just remove bread from the equation for a couple of weeks. I will keep you posted on how it works for me.